Pierre Casiraghi and Boris Herrmann presented the next stage of their adventure to the members of the Yacht Club de Monaco (YCM). Abord a brand-new racing boat, they have a busy schedule ahead of them, with the Vend\u00e9e Globe 2024, in their sights.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Written by : Aurore Teodoro \u2013 Photos: Mesi \/ Yacht Club de Monaco, Marin Le Roux polaRYSE, Yann Riou, Ricardo Punto & Martin Keruzor\u00e9 \/ Team Malizia<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pierre Casiraghi and Boris Herrmann presented the next stage of their adventure to the members of the Yacht Club de Monaco (YCM). Abord a brand-new racing boat, they have a busy schedule ahead of them, with the Vend\u00e9e Globe 2024, in their sights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They are doing it again! Over a year after the arrival of the last Vend\u00e9e Globe, Team Malizia is back for another five-year campaign. A logical, foregone conclusion after Boris Herrmann’s fine run, where he ended fifth and narrowly missed the podium due to an unlucky collision with a fisherman’s boat a few hours before crossing the finish line ? “No, it wasn’t. When Boris finished the race, he didn’t really want to go back. The Vend\u00e9e Globe is 80 days alone with very little sleep. These are such difficult moments. I gave him time, we had other ideas too. But our partners wanted us to continue the adventure and Boris, after a few weeks of rest, decided that he wanted to do it again”<\/em>, explained his friend Pierre Casiraghi, founder of Team Malizia and YCM vice-president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And what better way to motivate the German skipper than, for the first time, a brand-new boat? “It’s a paradox to suffer so much during the race and to want to go back so badly\u2026 it’s also due to the fact that we were able to do something different this time. I’m not sure I would have exactly the same motivation with the same boat. Part of it is the technical and intellectual challenge, and the search for improvement in the boat”<\/em>, confirmed Boris Herrmann. Goodbye the Sea Explorer – Yacht Club de Monaco, ex-Gitana, built in 2015 for S\u00e9bastien Josse. Malizia III, as she is provisionally named, is currently under construction at the Multiplast shipyard and was designed based on the experience and bold choices of the German sailor, who intended to combine performance, comfort and above all safety. “This unit is more adapted and tolerant to the sea. The racing boats are very flat and hard to handle in rough seas. This one will have more feminine, round and banana shapes”<\/em>, explains Boris Herrmann, before adding: “the waterline will be much shorter and that’s unheard of in the boats of the last ten years.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nA tailor-made new boat<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
A busy schedule<\/h4>\n\n\n\n